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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 9753338" data-attributes="member: 7038056">We had a couple players out Monday for our usual PF2e campaign, so we went with the Shadowdark gauntlet I mentioned upthread a bit. This was our first time playing SD, so here's some observations.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">We played on Foundry VTT, so keep that in mind for some of these observations. Session was about 2ish hours.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">None of us had ever played a gauntlet/funnel style game, so it was a big change of pace. The players had fun with it, despite losing somewhere around 6 characters between the 4 of them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I stuck strictly to the always on initiative to get an extended look at it and figure out where we might be able to relax it a bit. Overall it worked wonderfully at making sure everyone stayed involved and had an equal chance to find loot or discover something. It did create some weirdness when they wanted to move from room to room with only 1 torch lit. I think next time that is when I would relax the initiative order to allow a smoother transition.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Torch timer created a nice sense of urgency that helped move things along. I don't think the players knew they could roughly see how much time was left on the Foundry character sheet of the PC holding it, so beyond me telling them when there was a couple minutes left that the torch was beginning to sputter a bit they didn't know how much time they had. I don't see a reason to ever stop using this in situations where light is an issue.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To the best of my knowledge all of the players first experience with TTRPGs was either D&D 3e or 5e, so they're used to the game having some sort of skill or talent system. Not having skills to fall back on to ask to roll checks wasn't really any issue to figure things out. I don't think I made them roll many checks all night either.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When combat did happen, it flowed really quick which was a nice change of pace.</li> </ul>They made it about halfway through the dungeon, so we'll probably finish it up in 2 weeks when we'll be missing the same 2 players for our weekly game again. We've discussed giving the game an extended look playing level 1 characters during an in-person session next month, we'll see how that goes.</blockquote>

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